People should be allowed to die with dignity, says one reader.
People should be allowed to die with dignity, says one reader.
Canada's High Court has ruled that to deny people with incurable torment the right to die with dignity is inhumane. I agree. The right to life is one thing, but when all quality of life has gone, who has the right to say that one will live in pain andtorment until death comes naturally?
Our elected representatives have debased the sanctity of marriage by allowing homosexuals to marry (and they should now write that out of the Bible), but do not allow the right to die with dignity when one is "at the end of the rope".
Many of the most advanced countries are now allowing death with dignity.
It is not right that a family member or friend should be punished for helping a terminally ill person to die because the law of the land says so, and is hopelessly out of date - when it could be amended by Parliament. There would be many ways that death could be accomplished with dignity.
How about the political parties getting together and discussing ways that this could be done without using it as a political football? I say, stop the political pandering over this, get on with it, and get it written into law in short order.
